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GSK, University of Edinburgh partner in drug discovery

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:53 PM

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the University of Edinburgh have agreed on a collaborative partnership to discover and develop medicines with the potential to treat severe acute pancreatitis.

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Life Technologies, GSK ink cancer research agreement

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 10:55 AM

Life Technologies has signed an agreement with GlaxoSmithKline to develop a diagnostic to be used as a companion test with a GSK candidate cancer immunotherapy. Life will develop a qPCR-based molecular diagnostic assay for GSK's MAGE-A3 cancer immunotherapy candidate designed to identify patients likely to benefit from the immunotherapy.

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CertiVox wins 2011 Bully Award

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 01:43 PM

CertiVox has received the Yearling category of the 2011 Bully Award, an honor presented by White Bull Summits to Europe’s leading technology, media and telecommunications companies.

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Eagle Awards honor GSK, Medpace, Quorum IRB

Friday, October 21, 2011 11:14 AM

Sponsor GlaxoSmithKline, CRO Medpace and IRB Quorum Review all took home the coveted Eagle Award last Saturday, honored by investigative sites at the sixth annual Site Solutions Summit.

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Researchers use RNA technology to block inflammation

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 01:26 PM

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers - along with collaborators from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals - have found a way to block, in an animal model, the damaging inflammation that contributes to many disease conditions. In their report receiving early online publication in Nature Biotechnology, the investigators describe using small interfering RNA technology to silence the biochemical signals that attract a particular group of inflammatory cells to areas of tissue damage.

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Biotron’s phase IIa Hepatitis C study shows positive results

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12:29 PM

Australian drug development company Biotron has released results from its phase IIa trial of its lead drug candidate, BIT225 in Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected patients.

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Quintiles names global head of clinical & data operations

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:59 AM

Quintiles has named Steven Skolsky global head of its clinical & data operations (CDO) unit, the core of the company’s clinical development division that monitors the clinical conduct at research sites and collects and manages data from thousands of patients in hundreds of clinical trials conducted around the world.

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GSK seeks $2 billion acquisition in India

Thursday, October 6, 2011 11:58 AM

GlaxoSmithKline is eyeing acquisitions worth as much as $2 billion in India in an effort to cement its position in one of the world's fastest-growing drug markets, the group's chief executive told U.K. newspaper The Times in an interview, according to Dow Jones Newswires.

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Drug sponsors join research partnership to accelerate drug discovery

Thursday, September 29, 2011 01:21 PM

In a bid to save both time and money, some of the industry's biggest names are experimenting with new ways to pool early-stage research, effectively taking a leaf out of the "open-source" manual that gave the world Linux software, according to Reuters.

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START expands with phase I center in Shanghai

Thursday, September 22, 2011 10:45 AM

South Texas Accelerated Research Therapeutics (START), a US-based group that claims to run the world’s largest co-ordinated network of phase I clinical trials in oncology, has opened a phase I research facility in China at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Centre, the city’s largest cancer hospital, according to PharmaTimes.

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